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On World Press Freedom Day, CPJ calls for the release of all jailed journalists

By Shazdeh Omari/CPJ News Editor

New York, April 29, 2014—Uzbek editor Muhammad Bekjanov has been in jail for 15 years, one of the longest imprisonments of journalists worldwide. Prominent Iranian journalist Siamak Ghaderi was imprisoned in 2010 and has been beaten and whipped in custody. Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hai, serving a 12-year jail term, could barely walk or talk during a prison visit in July 2013, his family said.

New
York, April 2, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the ongoing
imprisonment of independent Uzbek editor Muhammad Bekjanov, whose health has
severely deteriorated in jail, and urges authorities to immediately release him
so that he may receive medical care. Bekjanov and a colleague, both of whom
were jailed in 1999, have been in prison for longer than any other journalists
worldwide, according to CPJ research.

New
York, January 25, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by the
politically motivated additional sentence handed to Muhammad Bekjanov, the jailed
editor of now-defunct opposition newspaper Erk,
who has been in prison in Uzbekistan since 1999 on trumped-up charges.